Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...

The ocean can be an extremely dangerous place, even for an animal that migrates through and rides its currents for decades.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — After spending nearly three months rehabilitating at The Florida Aquarium, a sea turtle made its way back into the Gulf waters. Beachgoers watched as Buckley waddled into the ...

Scientists in Georgia are using DNA from one egg per sea turtle nest to track ancestry and migration patterns. Human activities, such as leaving trash on beaches and disturbing nests, can negatively ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

The turtle was found off the coast of Virginia after ingesting a fishhook and won't be released to the wild because of arthritis in her front flippers. Kansas City is hundreds of miles away from the ...

Volunteers say patrols will be reduced at Padre Island National Seashore during Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season.